I have a Diamond Supraexpress modem on the serial port (com1)
I tried for the first time for me a multisession disc.
The pupdial did not find my modem, but after using wizard to click on the ttsy0 port it
found my modem and i was able to configure gkdial. I now runs ok.
On saving to disc and rebooting it did not remember any settings or any added programs like wvdial and gnome-ppp which I use. Is this normal for a multisession? ie new each time?

Your situation is not clear to me. On first boot, did you boot into ram only, either by using 'puppy pfix=ram' boot parameters, or by booting up on a PC that doesn't have any pup_save file?

Nope. I understand the subject of the thread is the experimental version 2.17, which I don't run, but I thought it might have been a simple case of keyboard dyslexia. No offense intended. _________________Actions speak louder than words ... and they usually work when words don't!
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Marco, also, I'm curious what driver is working with your modem? When you start PupDial, at the top it states in bold letters that your modem is found and it gives the device, like this: /dev/something -- what is that "something"?

/dev/ttySL0

Ah, the Smartlink drive, very good. Could I bother you with one more request, type this in a terminal window:
# lsmod
... do you see any entry fo 'slusb' or 'slamr'?
... what entry is there for sound? It will be something starting with 'snd_'
(note, just drag mouse over text to highlight, it will automatically be in the clipboard)

Does sound work on your system? -- you can test, go to /usr/share/audio and click on a sound file.
The rason I ask that, is Smartlink can use some ALSA sound drivers for the modem, but in some cases it is known to clash with sound support.

Note, Smartlink has been bought out by Conexant. I hope that doesn't mean the end of the free Smartlink driver support.

So sorry Mr.Barry.K I didn't go online for a while to reply to your topic:
Have you got a Thinkpad 600, 600E or 770?
(http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=18996 ) but I don't think it would of mattered as I am as GeoffS puts it

The connect icon did not detect my modem. Only after using the modem wizard could I use the presented interface. I install wvdial/gnome-ppp afterwoods so that I can turn off the modem sounds.
The cups program is terrible, difficult to understand let alone setup. I still havnt managed to get hp710c printer to work - perhaps it needs compiling the pnm2ppa driver and/or foomatics in the startup routine?

I've been trying to make gxine look a little sharper with DVD playback. One of the things on the gxine FAQ list is to build the kernel for 1000hz. Noticed puppy's kernel (2.6.18 & 2.6.21) is set to 100hz. Before 2.6.21 this was good because it saved battery life on laptops. But now 2.6.21 has a dyntick (aka tickless) option that effectively drops the frequency when it's not needed. Next time you rebuild the kernel you might want to consider switching to 1000hz or 300hz and enabling tickless. Before the tickless kernel some people reported a high pitched noise with 1000hz don't know if this would still be a problem.

The cups program is terrible, difficult to understand let alone setup. I still havnt managed to get hp710c printer to work - perhaps it needs compiling the pnm2ppa driver and/or foomatics in the startup routine?

The release notes for 2.17exp1 state that CUPS is broken. I only got it fixed afterward, so it should be right for 2.17alpha.

and the sound card wasn't detected but thank to tempestuous who was kind enough to take the time to help me (Many thanks sir) i got it working easily in the test version of 2.17.

What was the solution?

I added the following lines to modprobe.conf that tempestuous kindly posted in that thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=17307

tempestuous wrote:

EZ4arabs wrote:

would this script work on puppy?
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Script_for_configuring_the_CS4239_sound_chip_in_PnP_mode

That script looks like an ugly hack to me.
This page on the thinkwiki site is more relevant to you - http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/CS4239
(but the ALSA module options are slightly wrong, because that article relates to an old version of ALSA).

Let me summarize it in Puppy-speak:
In your bios set "QuickBoot = OFF". This is VERY IMPORTANT. It's the Thinkpad equivalent of "PnP OS = NO"
ISA devices such as your sound chip will not play well under Linux otherwise.

Now run the sound wizard, choose search for "legacy" devices, select "cs4236". Hopefully this will work. If not, you need to set up ALSA manually: open /etc/modprobe.conf in geany and add these lines -

Noticed puppy's kernel (2.6.18 & 2.6.21) is set to 100hz. Before 2.6.21 this was good because it saved battery life on laptops. But now 2.6.21 has a dyntick (aka tickless) option that effectively drops the frequency when it's not needed. Next time you rebuild the kernel you might want to consider switching to 1000hz or 300hz and enabling tickless. Before the tickless kernel some people reported a high pitched noise with 1000hz don't know if this would still be a problem.

Since you mention this... the latest kernel also hasn't got SOFTWARE_SUSPEND turned on, which would be good for laptop users who want to use the "suspend2" package for suspend/hibernate._________________What's the ugliest part of your body?
Some say your nose
Some say your toes
But I think it's your mind

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